About Kestra

Kestra is the unified
orchestration platform.

Kestra orchestrates data pipelines, infrastructure automation, IT operations, business processes and the AI agents that now act across all of them, from one control plane. Teams describe what should run, when, and what happens when it fails, in one declarative file. The tasks themselves can be written in any language and call any system.

More than 40,000 organizations run Kestra, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. The engine is open source under Apache 2.0. We are headquartered in the United States and France, with teams across North America, Europe and Asia, and customers running Kestra in production on every continent.

The whole Kestra team on the stairs of the office
Why we exist

Every team automated
its own corner.

Kestra started in 2020 at Leroy Merlin, Europe's largest DIY retailer, where every team automated its own corner with its own tool and no one could see or control the whole. Data had its scheduler, infrastructure its scripts, operations its runbooks. When something broke between them, no one owned it.

We built one control plane for all of it. Every flow, schedule, trigger and approval lives there, versioned and audited, while the work still runs in the databases, clouds, scripts and tools teams already have. Kestra Enterprise and Kestra Cloud add what mission-critical workflows need: security, governance, high availability and enterprise support.

Every decade, one coordination problem grows large enough to become its own category. Today, that problem is orchestrating everything a company runs: infrastructure, data, AI, business processes. We started building Kestra before anyone gave it a name, and we kept going. Now engineers at some of the world's largest companies trust it with their business-critical operations. Our goal is to lead this market.

Emmanuel DarrasCo-founder and CEO

GitHub stars

Engineers star, fork and contribute to the engine on GitHub.

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30,000+

Plugins

Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, dbt, cron jobs and scripts in any language, plus the clouds, databases and SaaS your teams already use. Kestra calls them where they already run.

Browse the plugins →

2,600+

Organizations

Run Kestra in production, open source users and Enterprise customers together.

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40,000+

In production at

The workloads that
cannot fail.

Banks, telecoms, retailers, manufacturers and public administrations run their critical workflows on Kestra, on one platform, with the audit trail their regulators ask for.

What we believe

Principles we build to.

We use these five to decide what goes into Kestra and what we turn down.

  • Declarative

    A workflow is a YAML document the whole team can read, review in a pull request, version and promote.

  • Open

    The engine is Apache 2.0, the plugins are public, and the roadmap is argued in GitHub issues. Leaving is as easy as exporting a file.

  • Language-agnostic

    Python, SQL, shell, Java, Terraform, dbt, an API call. Kestra runs what your teams already write, where they already run it.

  • Runs anywhere

    Cloud, on-premises, air-gapped. Workers connect outbound, so compute stays where your data and your rules require.

  • Governed by default

    Access control, audit logs, approvals and policies ship with the platform, and apply to agents the same way they apply to workflows.

Open source since
the first commit.

The engine, the plugins and the roadmap are public. Thousands of engineers run Kestra, open issues, send pull requests and answer each other on Slack every month.

Our journey.

  1. 2020

    Kestra starts as a solo project to replace Airflow at Leroy Merlin France, where it runs in production.

  2. 2022

    The first public release. The repository passes 1,000 GitHub stars two months later.

  3. 2023

    A pre-seed round, the first hires and the first enterprise customers.

  4. 2024

    A seed round. The project passes 10,000 GitHub stars in October.

  5. 2025

    Kestra 1.0 ships with AI agents and the first long-term support release. 20,000 GitHub stars.

  6. 2026

    A Series A led by RTP Global, then Kestra 2.0 and its rebuilt engine. 30,000 GitHub stars.

Leadership.

  • Emmanuel Darras

    Emmanuel Darras

    Co-founder and CEO
  • Ludovic Dehon

    Ludovic Dehon

    Co-founder and CTO
  • Anna Geller

    Anna Geller

    Head of Product
  • Kai Waehner

    Kai Waehner

    Global Field CTO
  • Terry Flowers

    Terry Flowers

    Head of Sales
Global presence

Two headquarters,
one global team.

Offices in the United States and France, teammates across North America, Europe and Asia, and customers in production on every continent.

  • United States

    Kestra Technologies Inc.

    Go-to-market, field engineering and customer success for the Americas.

  • France

    Kestra Technologies SAS

    Engineering, product and the European go-to-market teams.

  • Remote

    Distributed teams

    Engineering, field and go-to-market teams across North America, Europe and Asia.

  • The Kestra team in 2024
  • A Kestra team member presenting
  • Talking with a visitor at the Kestra booth
  • The Kestra team listening to a talk
  • The Kestra team on a night out
  • Kestra team members laughing during a session
  • Kestra team members interviewed on stage
  • Anna Geller talking to the team
  • Kestra team members talking
  • Kestra team members with the logo on their shirts
  • A Kestra team member at the booth
Trust and security

Built to be audited.

What you can check yourself, and what auditors have checked for you.

  • Open source engine

    Apache 2.0, public issue tracker, public release notes, dependencies you can audit.

  • SOC 2 and GDPR

    Independently audited controls, with reports available on request.

  • Self-hosted and air-gapped

    Your network, your keys, no outbound connection required. Public administrations run it this way.

  • Responsible disclosure

    Security issues are handled privately through GitHub security advisories.

Backed by investors and
infrastructure founders.

  • Olivier PomelCo-founder and CEO, Datadog
  • Clément DelangueCo-founder and CEO, Hugging Face
  • Nicolas DessaigneCo-founder, Algolia
  • Tristan HandyFounder and CEO, dbt Labs
  • Michel TricotCo-founder and CEO, Airbyte
  • Bertrand DiardCo-founder, Talend
  • Frédéric PlaisCo-founder, Platform.sh
  • Pierre BurgyCo-founder and CEO, Strapi
  • Stijn ChristiaensCo-founder, Collibra
With the support of
  • Bpifrance
  • Région Hauts-de-France
  • BNP Paribas
  • CIC
  • Caisse d'Épargne

Talk to us.

  • Sales

    A demo on your use case, with an engineer.

    Book a demo →
  • Community

    Questions, blueprints and help from the team on Slack.

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  • Partners

    Technology partners, integrators and resellers.

    Partner program →
  • Press and brand

    Logo pack and brand guidelines. Media inquiries: press@kestra.io

    Newsroom →

Build the unified orchestration engine.

Engineering, field and go-to-market roles, remote across North America, Europe and Asia, on the engine that banks, telecoms and public administrations run in production.